[Phpwiki-talk] Re: Patch to detect bad windows setup

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

thanks for your work.
please send it to me or to the list or file a bugreport st the sf.net page
with the patch attached.

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>
> After another evening reading the PHP manuals I've found the
> problem.  If you follow the readme from php and use the
> php.ini-recommended that comes in a windows php tar
> distribution, then you get this nasty combination of settings
>
> register_globals = Off
> register_long_arrays = Off
> display_errors = Off
>
> What this does is that it thwarts the code in
> phpwiki/lib/config.php AND does not put out an error.
>
>       if (!ini_get('register_globals') or
> (ini_get('register_globals') == 'off')) {
>           extract($HTTP_SERVER_VARS);
>       }
>
>
> with long arrarys off, and display errors off, that code
> will fail, all the wiki links are bad, and you get no feedback.
>
> I have created a patch to address this.  The idea of the
> patch would be to cut down on the amount of emails you
> should have to address when people follow the mswindows
> setups and end up with bad php.ini's.  This patch will
> detect that condition and inform the user.
>
> I can't see in this sourceforge program how to attach my
> patch so I'll look around on your project page.
>
> Joel
>
>
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